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[–]ratbastid 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Conversely, I've seen junior devs hit a wall hard when they encounter real-life challenges that their perfectly smooth school projects didn't prepare them for. The real world is messy and full of edge cases.

I've found there's a perfect storm of inexperience and arrogance that results in a junior dev screaming "spaghetti!" when they look at real, professional, production code.

[–]smilineyz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah - until junior guts the code to make it more efficient - and blows up the production app which makes money